A Nurse's Story (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Goodman-Draper, Jacqueline, Health Care's Forgotten Majority: Nurses and their Frayed White Collars, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995.

  Speaking to the dynamics of a healthcare debate that has historically overlooked the political and fiscal well-being of patients and front-line workers as part of its implicit strategy, this book deals with one important group that is most often overlooked: nurses. Although addressed to a professional audience, this study does foreground many of the same issues raised by Baida in "A Nurse's Story" while at the same time exploring the nursing population as a more complex and politically dynamic community than it might appear to the casual observer.

• Kelly, David F., Medical Care at the End of Life: A Catholic Perspective, Georgetown University Press, 2006.

  Having worked with healthcare professionals for more than three decades, Kelly has confronted many difficult, often painful issues that concern medical treatment at the end of life. Here, he outlines succinctly many major issues regarding end-of-life care as understood within the traditions of Catholic medical ethics.

• Nelson, Siobhan, and Suzanne Gordan, The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered, Cornell University Press, 2006.

  Written for a general audience, this collection of essays provokes a rethinking of many assumptions that continue to inform both popular and political thinking about nurses and the nursing profession. Many of the essays included here warn of the dangers of oversimplified images of nursing.

• Rosen, Ruth, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, Penguin, 2001.

  Popular historian Ruth Rosen chronicles the trajectory of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the late twentieth century. Interweaving personal stories with political analysis, she remembers the events and the people who defined this social revolution. Working with resources from archives, traditional research, and personal interviews, Rosen invites readers to appreciate the impact of the women's movement and to agree with her argument that the need for attention to these issues is far from over.